48. Smyth (Constantine J.) Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland. . . from the earliest period. . . Also a Chronological Table of the Law Officers, with the promotions, deaths, resignations, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to the present Time With an outline of the legal history of Ireland and copious indexes. Small 8vo. 1839 Usher (James, Archbp. Armagh) Of the first establishment of English laws and parliaments in Ireland. Printed in Gutch's Collectanea Curiosa, v. i. p. 23. 50. Usher's discourse, shewing when, and how far the imperial laws were received by the old Irish, and the several inhabitants of Great Britain. 51. This is also printed as above, from a copy transcribed from the original in the archbishop's own handwriting, and addressed to Dr. Duck, for whom it was written, and who hath inserted the substance of it in his book, De Usu Juris Civilis. Webb (J. J.) Municipal Government in Ireland, Mediæval and Modern. 280 pp. 8vo. 1918 A short history starting from the first introduction into the country of the chartered borough by the Anglo-Norman monarchy. Sect. II.-STATUTES. 1. Berry (H. F.) Statutes and Ordinances and Acts of Parliament of Ireland, King John to 12 Edward IV., [1204-1473]. 3 vols. 4to. Dublin. 1907-14 2. Collection of all the Statutes now in Use. Fol. B. Tooke. 1678 3. 4. of all the Statutes now in Use with Notes in the Margin to . . . William and Mary, to which is added Rules, Orders, etc. [30] + 628 pp. Fol. Dublin. 1723 The earliest Act in the book is 3 Edward II. and the latest is 17 & 18 Charles II. and the latest Order 1672. Continued by Acts and Statutes 4 William and Mary to 11 Anne. (4) + pp. 631-920. Fol. Dublin. 1725 5. In this volume are contained all the Statutes from the tenthe yere of King Henrie the Sixt to the xiiii yere of our most gracious and soueraygne lady Queene Elysabeth; made and established in her Highness' Realme of Ireland. Tottell. 1572 This is Sir Henry Sydney's edition, and is the first printed edition of the Statutes of Ireland. 6. Irish Statutes. Revised Edition. 3 Edward II. to the Union, 1310-1800. 4to. 1885 7. Merick (J.) Brief Abstract of all the Antient English Statutes from Magna Charta in force in Ireland by virtue of an Act of Parliament made at Drogheda the 10th of Henry VII. 12mo. 1617 8. Robbins (N.) Exact Abridgment of all the Irish Statutes from the first session of Parliament in the 3rd year of Edward II. to the end of the 8th year of George II. Together with an Abridgment of all the English Statutes in force in Ireland. 4to. Dublin. 9. 1736 Statutes of Ireland, beginning third yere of Edward the Second until end of Parliament ended in thirteenth yeare of James I., [1310-1615]. Edited by Sir R. Bolton. 4to., Dublin, 1620, 1621. Reprinted with the addition of the subsequent Acts to 17 & 18 Charles II. and an Index, fol., Dublin, 1678. Again reprinted without further additions in 1723. 10. (1) Statutes at Large passed in Parliaments held in Ireland, 1310-1761, 8 vols., fol., Dublin, 1765. (2) Same, 1310-1786, with Index, 13 vols., continued to 1800 in 7 vols., 1786-1801. (3) Same, 1310-1800, 12 vols., 8vo., Dublin, 1794-1801. 8vo., Dublin, 1818. Grierson and Power, Same, General Index, 2 vols. in 1, New edition, with an Index, by 14 vols., 8vo., Dublin. 1819 Session Laws. 11. Statuta, Ordinationes, Acta et Provisiones edit. in prima [et secunda] sessione Parliamenti Elizabethae virtute Commissionis, & mandati sub magno Sigillo Angliae, tent. apud Dublin, anno Regino XXVII [et XXVIII]. 28 11. (including 3 blank). Fol. Chr. Barker. 12. Sessional Acts. 10 & 11 Charles I. Fol. Dublin. n.d. 1635 CHAPTER XXVI. WELSH LAW. 1. Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales; comprising Laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good modified by subsequent Regulations under the Native Princes prior to the Conquest by Edward I, and Anomalous Laws consisting principally of Institutions which by the Statute of Ruddlan were admitted to continue in force; with an English translation of the Welsh text. With indexes and glossary. Edited by A. Owen. In 1 vol., fol., or 2 vols., 8vo. 1841 Issued by the Record Commissioners. This critical and complete edition supersedes the older edition by Wotton. . . . Howel Dda is said to have drawn up these laws about 943. They are very extensive in their range, embracing Criminal, Private and Process Law. . . . They have points of affinity to the old Anglo-Saxon Laws."-Brunner, Sources, 9. 2. Arguments proving the Jurisdiction used by the President and Counsell in the Marches of Wales over the four English Counties to be Illegal. 4to. 1641 3. Baronia de Kemeys, from the original documents at Bronwydd. Printed for the Cambrian Archæological Association. 8vo. n.d. 4. Bowen (Ivor) The Statutes of Wales, collected, edited and arranged, with an Introduction. cxxviii + 309 pp. 8vo. 1908 A reprint of all the statutes relating to Wales from Magna Charta to 1902. 5. Doderidge (Sir J.) Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Dutchy of Cornwall, and Earldome of Chester. (16) + 142 pp., 4to., 1630; (16) + 142 pp., 4to. 6. 1714 Ellis (T. P.) Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the 1925 7. Jones (Owen), Williams (E.) and Pughe (W. O.) Myvyrian Archæology of Wales, collected out of ancient MSS. 3 vols., 1801-07; 1 vol., Denbigh. 1870 Includes the Laws of Howel Dda, accompanied in the 1870 edition with an English translation and a glossary. 9. Lewis (E. A.) The Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia: A Study of the Rise and Development of the Municipal Element in the Ancient Principality of North Wales. down to the Act of Union of 1536. 8vo. 10. 11. 1912 (H.) Ancient Laws of Wales viewed especially in regard to the light they throw upon the origin of some English Institutions; edited by J. E. Lloyd. xvi + 558 pp. 8vo. 1889; 1892 See also ch. i., s. ii., 30. (T.) The Laws of Howell Dda. A Facsimile Reprint of Llanstephan MS. 116 in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwith. xviii+121 pp. 8vo. 1913 This opens a series of Welsh texts which the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales has undertaken to issue. It is thought to date from the second half of the fifteenth century, and as a comparatively late version of the laws it has not much legal interest, but it is of considerable importance to the Welsh philologist. 12. Matthews (J. H.) Cardiff Records. 6 vols. 4to. 1898-1911 Contain Star Chamber Proceedings, Great Sessions Pleas, Plea Rolls, Chancery Proceedings, Borough Court Proceedings, etc. 13. Oldnall (W. R.) Short Sketch of the Origin and History of the Welsh Jurisdiction, with some Observations upon a proposal for its Abolition. 8vo. 1816 14. Owen (H.) Administration of English Law in Wales and the Marches. (4) + 32 pp. 4to. Privately printed. 1900 15. Probert (William) Ancient Laws of Cambria: containing the Institutional Triads of Dyvnwal Moelmud, the Laws of Howel the Good, Tradical Commentaries, Code of Education, and the Hunting Laws of Wales; to which are added the Historical Triads of Britain. Translated from the Welsh. (4) + 414 pp. 8vo. London. 1823 Dyvnwal Moelmud lived about 400 B.C. The Triads are particularly valuable on account of the light they throw on the origin of trial by jury. "Did Alfred frame the trial by jury purely from the energy of his own mind, or did he obtain the idea of it from Dyvnwal's triads? To my mind the evidence is decisive in favour of the Welsh."-Preface. 16. Registrum vulgariter vulgariter nuncupatum "The Record of Caernarvon. Edited by Sir H. Ellis. Fol. 1838 A collection of extents of manors taken chiefly in 26 Edward III. in Caernarvon and Anglesea, etc. It includes also the Leges Wallicae. Seebohm (F.) The Tribal System in Wales, being part of an inquiry into the Structure and Methods of Tribal Society. 8vo., 1895; 2nd edit., 8vo. 1904 18. Skeel (C. A. S.) The Council in the Marches of Wales: A Study in Local Government. 8vo. The Court of the Council of Wales arose under Edward IV. powers similar to the Star Chamber.-Maitland, Const. Hist. 264. 1904 It had 19. Vaughan (Ld. Ch. Just.) Concerning process out of the Courts at Westminster into Wales, of late times, and how antiently. Printed at the end of his Reports. 20. (Rice) Practica Walliae: or, Proceedings in the Great Sessions of Wales. Containing the method and practice of an attorney there, from an original to the execution, [with] the old Statute of Wales at Large, and an abridgement of the Statutes uniting Wales to England. (12) + 203 + (8) pp. 24mo. 1672 21. Vinogradoff (P.) and Morgan (F.) Survey of the Honour of Denbigh, 1334. 8vo. 1914 The text of the Survey with an introduction. A mine of information about the social and economic organisation of the Welsh, and the steps by which it was gradually assimilated to English feudalism, and as to the exact extent to which English forms of tenure had begun to make headway in Denbigh at the date of the Survey. 22. Wade-Evans (A. W.) Welsh Medieval Law, being a text of the Laws of Howel the Good, namely the British Museum Harleian MS. 4353 of the 13th century, with a translation, introduction, appendix, glossary, index and a map. xevi + 397 pp. 8vo. Oxford. 1909 24. 1859 23. Walter (F.) 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